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Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th September 2018

This two day health economics course will take place in the UCL Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF.

The course is for people working in health care settings, academic environments, industry and governmental and non-governmental organisations who wish to achieve a basic understanding of, and be able to interpret, cost effectiveness analyses in the context of infectious diseases, with particular focus on HIV. It will be assumed that participants have no prior knowledge of cost effectiveness analysis.

The course includes:

Principles of economic evaluation of health care programmes

Basic aspects of infectious disease modelling

The use and role of economic evaluations in helping to make decisions, with particular regard to infectious diseases

The course will be led by Dr Valentina Cambiano and Professor Andrew Phillips from UCL Institute for Global Health. In addition, specific sessions will be led by Professor John Cairns (LSHTM), Dr Tim Colbourn (UCL), Dr Alec Miners (LSHTM), Dr Jasmina Panovska-Griffith (UCL), Dr Elena Pizzo (UCL), Paul Revill (University of York), Dr Alison Rodger (UCL) and Professor Mark Sculpher (University of York). The course will be interactive and informal.

In order to maintain a low participant to tutor ratio, attendee numbers will be limited.

This five day workshop will be run by the HIV Epidemiology and Statistics Group, Royal Free Centre for HIV Medicine, University College London (UCL) Medical School and will take place in the Lower Ground Floor Training Rooms 1 & 2, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF.

The course is for healthcare professionals and those working in the pharmaceutical industry, who have an interest in HIV. It is aimed at those with little or no prior statistical knowledge and will include:

Basic introduction to statistical techniques and hypothesis testing

The use of survival analysis in studies of HIV infection

The design and analysis of randomised controlled trials for antiretroviral therapy

The role of observational studies in HIV infection

The analysis of HIV RNA data and the use of surrogate marker endpoints in HIV clinical trials

The course is led by Prof Caroline Sabin. Course tutors will include Prof Andrew Phillips, Prof Amanda Mocroft and Dr Fiona Lampe. The course will be interactive and informal. In order to maintain a low participant to tutor ratio, numbers will also be limited.

The NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections, research theme C: Improving the care and management of people with STIs and BBVs, would like to invite you to a data linkage symposium Using data linkage to answer public health questions, taking place on Monday 7th November 2016.

The course is free to attend, and will cover

Data linkage principles

Application of data linkage for surveillance, recommendations, and research

Issues around information governance

Overview of our work in the HPRU

Using linked datasets for modelling, qualitative work and phylogenetic distributions.

Dr Lorraine McDonagh will be delivering a presention titled "What are the facilitators and barriers to chlamydia testing in general practice using the COM-B Model: A systematic review" at this conference.